symptoms- Tremor is shaking associated with parkinsons disease often begins in the hand.
Slow Motion - it may reduce your ability to initiate voluntary movement.
Rigid Muscles- Muscles stiffness often occursin your limps and neck.
Impaired Posture and Balance-Your posture may become stooped as a result of parkinsons disease.
Loss of Automatic Movements- blinking,smiling, and swinging your arms when you walk are all unconscious acts that are a normal part of being a human.
Speech Changes- you speak rapidly , softly or in a monotone, sometimes slurring or reapeating words or hesitating before speaking.
Dementia-in late stages of parkinsons disease some people develop problems memory and mental clarity.
Treatment and Prognosis-there is no cure for parkinsons disease. Medications provide dramatic from the symptoms. Nerve cells can use levodopa to make dopamine and relenish the brains dwinding supply.Carbidopa delays the conversion of levodopa into dopamine until it reaches the brain.Other drugs such as bromocriptine,pramipexole,and ropinirole, minic the role of dopamine in the brain, causeing neurons to react as they would to dopamine.Parkinson disease is both chronic means that is persists over a long period of time , and progressive , which means its symptoms grow worse over time. Some people become severely disabled , others tremor is only a minor motor disruptions.No one can predict which symptoms will affect an individual patient, and the intensity of the symptoms also varies from person to person.
Descripton of Disorder-1877 from FR.maladie de parkinson (1876) named for eng. Physician James parkinson (1755-1824),who described it (1817) under the names shaking palsy and paralysis agitams. Parkinsons disease belongs to a group of conditions called motor system disorders, which are the result of loss of dopamine -producing brain cells. The four primary symptoms of parkinsons disease are tremor or trembling in hands,arms,legs,jaw,and face.rigidity or stiffiness ofthe limbs and trunk. Bradykinesia or slowness of movement , and postural instability,or impaired balance and coordination.As these symptoms become more pronounced, patients may having difficulty walking, talking, or completing other simple task.
Interitance Pattern- Amoung familias of parkinsons disease the inertance differs depending on the gene that is altered .If the LRRK2 or SNCAgene is involed, the disorder is inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern, means one copy of an altered gene in each cell is sufficient to cause the disorder.Most cases of parkinsons disease occur in people with no family history of the disorder. The inheritance pattern if any is unknown.
Incidence/ Fequency-the frequencyof Parkinson's disease have become increasingly important, because putative genetic and environmental risk factors have been identified. The authors estimated the prevalence and incidenceof Parkinson's disease in a culturally diverse community in New York City over a 4-year period (January 1, 1988–December 31, 1991) using a disease registry substantiated, for older individuals, by a subsequent survey of a random sample of Medicare recipients between January 1, 1992, and December 31, 1993. The prevalence rate was 107 per 100,000 persons, and over a 3-year period the average incidence rate was 13 per 100,000 person-years. Age-adjusted prevalence rates were lower for women than for men in each ethnic group and were lower for blacks than for whites and Hispa
parkinsons disease
symptoms- Tremor is shaking associated with parkinsons disease often begins in the hand.Slow Motion - it may reduce your ability to initiate voluntary movement.
Rigid Muscles- Muscles stiffness often occursin your limps and neck.
Impaired Posture and Balance-Your posture may become stooped as a result of parkinsons disease.
Loss of Automatic Movements- blinking,smiling, and swinging your arms when you walk are all unconscious acts that are a normal part of being a human.
Speech Changes- you speak rapidly , softly or in a monotone, sometimes slurring or reapeating words or hesitating before speaking.
Dementia-in late stages of parkinsons disease some people develop problems memory and mental clarity.
Treatment and Prognosis-there is no cure for parkinsons disease. Medications provide dramatic from the symptoms. Nerve cells can use levodopa to make dopamine and relenish the brains dwinding supply.Carbidopa delays the conversion of levodopa into dopamine until it reaches the brain.Other drugs such as bromocriptine,pramipexole,and ropinirole, minic the role of dopamine in the brain, causeing neurons to react as they would to dopamine.Parkinson disease is both chronic means that is persists over a long period of time , and progressive , which means its symptoms grow worse over time. Some people become severely disabled , others tremor is only a minor motor disruptions.No one can predict which symptoms will affect an individual patient, and the intensity of the symptoms also varies from person to person.
Descripton of Disorder-1877 from FR.maladie de parkinson (1876) named for eng. Physician James parkinson (1755-1824),who described it (1817) under the names shaking palsy and paralysis agitams. Parkinsons disease belongs to a group of conditions called motor system disorders, which are the result of loss of dopamine -producing brain cells. The four primary symptoms of parkinsons disease are tremor or trembling in hands,arms,legs,jaw,and face.rigidity or stiffiness ofthe limbs and trunk. Bradykinesia or slowness of movement , and postural instability,or impaired balance and coordination.As these symptoms become more pronounced, patients may having difficulty walking, talking, or completing other simple task.
Interitance Pattern- Amoung familias of parkinsons disease the inertance differs depending on the gene that is altered .If the LRRK2 or SNCAgene is involed, the disorder is inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern, means one copy of an altered gene in each cell is sufficient to cause the disorder.Most cases of parkinsons disease occur in people with no family history of the disorder. The inheritance pattern if any is unknown.
Incidence/ Fequency-the frequency of Parkinson's disease have become increasingly important, because putative genetic and environmental risk factors have been identified. The authors estimated the prevalence and incidence of Parkinson's disease in a culturally diverse community in New York City over a 4-year period (January 1, 1988–December 31, 1991) using a disease registry substantiated, for older individuals, by a subsequent survey of a random sample of Medicare recipients between January 1, 1992, and December 31, 1993. The prevalence rate was 107 per 100,000 persons, and over a 3-year period the average incidence rate was 13 per 100,000 person-years. Age-adjusted prevalence rates were lower for women than for men in each ethnic group and were lower for blacks t